Textile-roller clearer



(No Model.)

R. S. MATTESON. TEXTILE ROLLER GLEARER.

No. 602,626; PatenledApr. 19,1898.

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RUFUS S. MATTESON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- TI-IIRDS TO CHARLES H. FIELD, OF SAME PLACE, AND JOSIAH A. KING,

OF SEEKONK, MASSACHUSETTS.

TEXTILE-ROLLER CLEARER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,626, dated April 19, 1898.

Application filed February 6 1897. I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Burns S. MATTEsoN, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Textile- Roller Clearers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked there0n,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to the class of devices for clearing the drawing-rolls in textile machinery.

r 5 It is fully explained and illustrated in this specification and the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of the head with the rolls and the clearer, taken on line as in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view of the 20 same shown in Fig. 1 with the cover of the rolls broken away to show the mechanism of the clearer. Fig. 3 shows the under side of the supporting-frame of the clearer. Fig. 4 shows the upper side of the clearer-plate. Fig.

5 is an enlarged representation of the section of the clearer shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 shows the surface side of the clearer-plate with its covering.

The object of this invention is to produce 0 a clearer that will collect and retain the waste and work automatically over its surface and the working length of the rolls.

The construction and operation are as follows:

3 5 A represents the head, on which the lower rolls a a and the top rolls 2' i are supported.

B is the cover over the rolls. It is hinged at n, so as to admit of being turned up to get at the clearer. This cover 13 is broken away to, show the clearer under it. The clearer consists of a plate D, the upper side of which is shown in Fig. 4, and the under side,which is covered with cloth and goes next to the rolls i i, is seen in Fig. 6. This plate D has a reciprocating motion across the rolls, as indicated by the double arrow in Fig. 2. The frame J that gives the reciprocating motion to the plate D is hinged at n on the same rod Serial No. 622,258, (No model.)

as the cover B. This frame is held in connection with the plate D, its arm 1) passing through the double stud v on the plate D and the rabbeted ridges 0 0 on the frame J catching under the heads of the studs 0 0 on the plate D, so that as the plate D slides back and forth it is guided at the three points o, o,'and o. The mechanism that gives the reciprocating motion to the plate consists of a small shaft 9, held in bearings in arms on the frame J ,which shaft has a small wheel 1) fast on each end that rests on and are turned by the top roll '5. The shaft ehas a worm-wheel c in its middle that engages in the teeth of a worm-gear 1", held on a stud fast in the frame J. As the roll 71 turns the shafteby its wheels b the worm c slowlyturns the wormgear a" and a stud h in the face of that gear pushed against the ridge h on the plate D and moves that plate back until the stud h passes the center and begins to go back. Then the regular motion of the rolls 2' i, (see arrow, Fig. 5,) on which the plate D rests, will move that plate forward again as fast as the receding motion of the pin it will let it go until the stud h passes the other center, when it will begin to push the plate back again, as before described. In this way the plate D receives a steady back and forward motion on the rolls, collecting on its cloth-covered face the lint or waste, &c., that. would otherwise become attached to the sliver S and injure the yarn.

In case it is used as abottom clearer a spring or other suitable means can be used to hold it in contact with the rolls.

Having thus described my improvements, I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a clearer for rolls in textile-machines, the combination with the rolls to be cleared of a plate bearing on the rolls, means for giving said plate a reciprocating motion in a direction at right angles'or nearly so to the axis of the rolls, flanges on a stationary part, and studs on the plate to engage the flanges to guide the plate in the desired direction, substantially as described. 5

2.' The combination in a clearer for rolls for the purpose specified, of a clearer-plate, a in one direction by a ridge or projection fast m0tor-fran1e,a shaft held in bearings attached on said plate, substantially as described. 10 to said motor-frame, Wheels on said shaft re- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ceiving motion from the rolls, a Worm-wheel my hand this 3d day of February, A. D. 1897. fast on said shaft, a Worm gear-Wheel held RUFUS S. MATTESON.

on a stud fast in said motor-plate, and engag- In presence of ing with the Worm-Wheel, a stud in the worm- BENJ. ARNOLD,

gear and arranged to push the clearer-plate HOWARD E. BARLOW. 

